Family History Guide--Passenger and Immigration Lists

SHIPS' PASSENGER LISTS, MISCELLANEOUS PORTS (OGL #1281) provide microfilmed copies of original passenger lists of vessels arriving at 63 ports at Atlantic and Gulf ports and the Great Lakes ports of Rochester, New York, and Sandusky, Ohio from 1820-1873. The lists are arranged alphabetically by name of the port and then chronologically.

Baca, Leo. Czech Immigration Passenger Lists. Vols. 4-9. Halletsville, TX: Old Homestead Publishing Co., 1991-1998.

Alphabetical listings of 83,400 Czech arrivals at the port of New York, 1847-1896, 500 arrivals at Galveston, 1880-1886, and 58,251 arrivals at Baltimore, 1834-1899.

Bently, Elizabeth Petty. Passenger Arrivals at the Port of New York, 1820-1829: From Customs Passenger Lists. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1999.

An alphabetical listing of 150,000 passengers, includes sex, age, occupation, country to which belong, country intend to inhabit, ship and date of arrival.

-----. Passenger Arrivals at the Port of New York, 1830-1832: From Customs Passenger Lists. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2000.
CS68 .B465 2000

Coldham, Peter Wilson. Bonded Passengers to America. 3 vols. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983.

An alphabetical listing of 30,000 convicted felons transported to America from Middlesex County (London) from 1615 to 1775.

-----. The Complete Book of Emigrants. 4 vols. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987.

A comprehensive listing of those who left England from 1607 to 1776 for political, religious, or economic reasons; those who were deported for vagrancy; and those who were sold to labor in the Colonies.

Colletta, John Philip. They Came in Ships: A Guide to Finding Your Immigrant Ancestor's Arrival Record / 3rd ed. Orem, UT: Ancestry, 2002.
CS49 .C63 2002

Dobson, David. Scots in the U.S.A. and Canada, 1825-1875. 4 vols. Baltimore: Clearfield Company, 2004.
E184 .S3 D63 1998

-----. Scottish Emigration to Colonial America, 1607-1785. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004.
E184 .S3 D66 1994

-----. Ships from Ireland to Early America, 1623-1850. 2 vols. Baltimore: Clearfield Company, 1999-2004.
E49.2 .I6 D67 1999

-----. Ships from Scotland to Early America, 1628-1828. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1998.
E184 .S3 D69 1998

Filby, P. William. and Mary K. Meyer, eds. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index. 3 vols. with annual supplements. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1981.

An alphabetical listing of immigrants between the sixteenth and mid-twentieth centuries which appear in published passenger lists, naturalization records, church records, local histories, etc.

Glazier, Ira A., ed. The Famine Immigrants. 7 vols. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983.

An extensive compilation of the Irish who arrived at the Port of New York from 1846 to 1851 to escape the Potato Famine of the 1840s in Ireland.

Glazier, Ira A. and P. William Filby eds. Germans to America: Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports. 74 vols. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, 1988.

Arranged by date of arrival and indexed by surname, each volume provides an index of all ships with German passengers derived from the original ship manifest schedules. Volumes document passengers arriving from 1840 to June 1897.

Roberts, Gary Boyd. The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States: Who were Themselves Notable or Left Descendants Notable in American History. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.
CS55 .R6 2004

Schenk, Trudy. The Wuerttemberg Emigration Index. 8 vols. Salt Lake City: Ancestry Inc., 1986.

Records of applicants who filed for permission to emigrate from Wuerttemberg during the nineteenth century. Arranged alphabetically by surname, the date and place of birth, district towns, application date, and destination are included.

Tepper, Michael. American Passenger Arrival Records: A Guide to the Records of Immigrants Arriving at American Ports by Sail and Steam. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1988.

A basic guide that explains the records from the colonial period to 1924, what they contain, and where they are located.

-----. Emigrants to Pennsylvania, 1641-1819: A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists from the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Co., 1999.
F148 .E5 1999

-----. Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Baltimore, 1820-1834: from Customs Passenger Lists. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1982.

Arranged alphabetically name of passenger, age, sex, occupation, country to which they belong, country they intend to inhabit, ship and date of arrival are indicated.

-----. Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Philadelphia, 1800-1819: the Philadelphia Baggage Lists. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub., 1986.
CS68 .T464 1986

Zimmerman, Gary J. German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York. 4 vols. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985.

Reconstructed from Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, the lists index those individuals from 1847 to 1871 for whom a specific place in Germany is given.

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